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Steve

Lets say you want to add a side to a few faces.
You have to store all the data of these faces:point indexes,material
indexes, etc, then delete the faces and finally recreate them.

The problem is that if you delete the last face using a material,
Anim8or removes the material from the material list.
The faces are all created,but some  end up transparent
since their material index points at a non existing material.

Would it be possible to let the responsability of cleaning up to the
script using the RemoveUnusedMaterials(void)
or the RemoveUnusedData(void) function ?

Thanks
Claude

P.S.
Small detail,the spec says:
"OpenFace() begins the definition of a new face.  It returns the index of the newly created face.  If an error occurs it returns 0 and no new face is added. "
It seems problematic that the error returns a valid index value 0 .

Welcome dajean.

More than a year ago,I worked on a split point or unweld point script.
At the time,I couldn't finish it because of ASL limitations.See this post:

http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php?topic=121.msg629#msg629

Since,then Steve added the needed function,but I had lost the script
after a computer crash.(only one without back-up)
Finally,I decided to give it another try.

Not the most useful script,but still helpful in special cases,I think.

Would be nice if you could give it a try.Comments are welcome
especially about the new point locations.
I chose the actual one,because during testing it was easy to see the
result and also because it was easy to select the point when modelling.
Maybe,not moving it at all would be better.I'm not sure.

 * The PointSplit script allows you to split or if you prefer,unweld
 * a point.
 * If you have multiple faces sharing a point,select the point and
 * the faces you want to detach by spliting or unwelding the
 * point.
 * Run the script.
 * For each face,the new point will be moved at the center of 
 * the selected  point and the 2 two adjacent points of the face.
 *
 * The operation can be performed on multiple points and also
 * multiple meshes simultaneously.
 * If you select 2 points sharing the same edge,the result may
 * vary depending on the order the points are processed.

Thanks.
Claude

It seems to me that it makes reference to the weightedby
list:

weightedby { "bone01" }            0
weightedby { "bone02" }            1
weightedby { "bone03" }            2
weights { "mesh01"

If it could be used the way I described,to check the relative
orientation of faces,I think it should be implemented.It
would be a lot easier then calculating the normals and
testing their dot product.

I see your point about backward compatibility,but there's
2 mitigating factors:
-this function isn't normally used in export and primitive script,
 only in a limited number of command script;
-the correction seems to be easy enough:
abs(GetEdgeIndex())

Just a thought.
Hope it helps.
Claude

No Patrick.It's simply not implemented yet.

It's impossible to write such a script at the moment,
but Anim8or allows you to export an animation as
a suite of 3DS files.Then,you would have to convert
them to X files.

You could search the net for such a converter or give a try
to the one referenced on the resource page(Conv3DS) or load them in Anim8or and use the X export script.

Don't know if it would work well,but might be worth a try?

Neirao
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